Velocipede hobby-horse



' (NoModeL) J. W. LATTY.

VELQGIPEDE HOBBY HORSE.

No. 543,874. Patented Aug. 6, 1895.

l Nrren STATES PATENT VELOCIPEDE HOBBY-HORSE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,874, dated August 6,1 see.

Application filed October 22, 1894. Serial No. 526,598. (No model.)

following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a hobby-horse velocipede; and it consists in the novel'arrangement and combination of parts,that will be more fully hereinafter described and designated.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the mechanism which carries the propelling-chain. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the rear shaft of the velocipede, showing mounted thereon an adjustable sprocket-wheel. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the steering mechanism. Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line Y Y of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken through a portion of the steering mechanism just above the front steering wheel.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the vehicle-coupling, in the rear end of which is mounted an axle 2, and mounted on the end of said axle 2 are wheels 3, which are fixed to said axle. The said axle 2 rotates in the bearings formed in the rear end of the coupling 1. The coupling 1 is provided with a curved arm or standard 4, and formed in the upper extremity of said standard 4 is a bearing 5, said bearing 5 being superposed above a vertical standard 6, which standard 6 is secured in any suitable mechanical manner or cast integral with the coupling 1 near the intermediate portion thereof.

'Formedin the vertical standard 6 is an opening'7 fora purpose more fully hereinaf-. ter described.

8 indicates a detachable cleat which is secured to the vertical standard 6 by means of screws 9.

10 indicates an opening between the vertical standard 6 and the detachable cleat 8, the object of which will be more fully hereinafter described.

11 indicates a bore formed in the detachable cleat 8. Located in said bore 11 and the bore 7' formed in the vertical standard is a spindle 12, and mounted on said spindle 12 and located in the opening 10 is a sprocketwheel 13. It may be noted in this connection that said sprocket-wheel does not rotate on said spindle. Mounted on the ends of said spindle are cog-wheels 14, said cog-Wheels rotatably mounted on said spindle and located adjacent to a ratchet-wheel 15 which is non-rotatably mounted on said spindle.

A detail View of the sprocket-wheel, the cog-wheels, and ratchet-wheel, as above referred to, is illustrated in Fig. 2, wherein is illustrated a cog-wheel on each end of the spindle-12, and also a ratchet located on each end of said spindle. Said cog-wheels 14 mesh with semicircular.tooth-racks 16 and 17 in a manner as I will now proceed to describe.

By referring to Fig. 1 it can be seen that the semicircular tooth-rack 16 is of a different diameter or dimension than the one 17, the one 16 being located above one of the cog- Wheels 14, as illustrated in said figure, and the other one located beneath the cog-wheel 14 on the opposite end of the spindle 12, as illustrated in said figure. These two cogwheels 14 are rotated by means of these semicircular tooth-racks, and said racks are operated by the rocking of the hobby-horse 18, it being noted in this connection that said racks are rigidly secured to said hobby-horse and are rotatably mounted on a shaft 19, which shaft is mounted in the bearing formed in the upper portion of the vertical standard 6. The cog-wheel located below the rack 16 is free to move or rotate only to the right; but when the same is rotated to the left it operates or turns the ratchet located adjacent to the same, and consequently operates the spindle 12. The cogwheel located above the rack 17 operates in a reverse manner. By this construction when the hobby-horse is rocked forward the sprocket-wheel 13 is rotated, and also when the horse is rocked rearward said wheel is rotated.

The sprocket-wheel 13 is connected to an other sprocket-wheel 20, which sprocket-wheel 20 is mounted on the axle 2. Consequently when the sprocket-wheel 13 is rotated it imparts motion to the rear wheel of the Velociede. p Having briefly described the manner of pro;

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pelling the velocipede, I will now proceed to describe the steering" mechanism.

which encircles a cross-piece 25, said erossniece 25 havin mounted inits o JOSltO ends pivoted levers 26, which levers are pivotally connected to a pair of levers 27, which levers are also pivotally mounted in a cross-piece 28. By this pivoted connection the machine may be steered in any direction, and simultaneously therewith the forward portion of the hobby-horse may be moved up and down, as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 5.

Mounted upon the cross-piece 28 is a rod 20, which passes through the hobby-horse and has mounted on its top end a handle 30, and by the turning ot' this handle the whee 2? may be steered.

As before stated, the sprocket-wheel is adjustable. In other words, it may be tightened on the axle 2 by means of the sot-screw 31, or it may be loosened by means of said screw, and thereby permitted to rotate on said axle.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is- The improved hobby horse, comprising the frame, the driving wheels, a body mounted to rock upon said frame, driving gear conneeting said body to said driving Wheels, whereby when said body is rocked the machine will be propelled, a bifurcated standard 21 pivotally connected to said frame, a steering wheel in said standard, a lug on the upper end of said standard, a bearing 24 connected to said lug, a horizontal cross-piece 25 mounted .in said bearing, levers 26 pivotally connected to the opposite ends of said crosspieee, additional levers 27 pivotally connected at one end to the upper ends of said levers 26, a horizontal cross-piece 28 at the upper ends of said levers 27 and pivotally connected thereto, a rod 29 passing vertically through said rocking body and mounted in a suitable bearing formed in said body, said cross-piece 28 be ing rigidly connected to the lowerend of said rod 2!) at a point beneath said body, and a handle 30 fixed upon the upper projecting end of said rod 2'.) above said body, substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN XV. LA'llY.

Witnesses:

C. K. Jones, JNo. IIIGDON. 

